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FULL REVIEW: by Lindsay Hansen Park Electrifying storytelling meets historical reckoning in a tale of frontier faith, family, and fatal consequence… In No Forgiveness: Family, Polygamy, Murder, and Justice among Idaho’s Pioneering Mormons, Daniel H. Neal delivers a riveting, meticulously researched narrative that plunges readers into the spiritual, emotional, and […]
Gerald Shippen, author of The Indians Pony, has been commissioned to sculpt a memorial to the Sand Creek Massacre where military forces attacked the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal reservation killing hundreds. Shippen is a world-renown sculptor whose book provides a visual explanation of his sculpture process. We recommend it to […]
We never sit still for long, do we? Another great book is in progress. Tentatively titled “Murder on a Still Morning,” Dan Neal’s book traces his family of Mormon pioneers from Missouri to Utah, and onward to their homestead in Idaho. His family endures a murder over water rights, the […]
The Bat House: A Montana Memoir by Michael Riley is at the printer as I write this. Mike’s affectionate memoir recounts his struggle, both real and metaphorical, while restoring a farmhouse along the Yellowstone River in Rosebud County, Montana. Reviewer, Teresa Jordan, describes the book better than either Mike or […]
Founded in 1887, Hyattville, Wyoming, was an important crossroads for commerce. Today, it is a sleepy hamlet off the beaten track. Hyattville received a nice story in Wyoming’s only statewide online news source, The Cowboy State Daily. Read the article HERE. In 2008, WordsWorth helped the Hyattville History Committee publish […]
Douglas W. Nelson, author of Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp is reading Ben Murphy’s Heart Mountain Chronicles and has written to say, “It is an impressively comprehensive work that includes facts and findings that I was wholly unaware of. It deserves to be a foundational reference […]
Two exciting book discussions with Rodger McDaniel on Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins: the Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt. Written by Rodger McDaniel, a former Wyoming state legislator, Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins is the story of the life and tragic end of US Senator Lester C. Hunt who […]
Announcing the 2024 publication of Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center by Bernard Murphy and James Murphy Heart Mountain Chronicles is a meticulously researched history of one of the ten prison camps built by the Government in the summer of 1942 to incarcerate persons of Japanese […]
The Wyoming Historical Society has awarded former Wyoming governor and author David Freudenthal second place in the 2023 Publications: Non-Fiction Book Category for Wyoming: The Paradox of Plenty. Freudenthal said, “I am surprised and honored by the recognition. I enjoyed the research for the book but the process of completing […]
February 22, 2023 By Rebecca Hein. Wyoming: The Paradox of Plenty: The Allure and Risk of a Mineral Economy, by David Freudenthal. WordsWorth Publishing, Cody, Wyo., 2022, 237 pages. $20.00 paperback. The author’s blunt, tell-it-like-it-is style permeates this engaging history of Wyoming’s mineral economy and its associated politics. Drawing on […]